Example sentences of "and [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chimbote was a dreadful place , litter everywhere and smelling to hell of oil . |
| 2 | A stepping-stone for many people is through the arts seen not just as providing means of expression but also as giving meaning and helping to structure experience . |
| 3 | Starting on dry land , there are 12 hard tennis courts , floodlit at night , two open-air squash courts and a daily programme of games and activities ranging from aerobics and trampolining to volleyball , basketball and table tennis . |
| 4 | ‘ I survived but I have joined the group because I want to put something back raising money and proving to others that you can survive . ’ |
| 5 | Deletion clones in the mouse homolog T160 ( 22 ) and in rat HMG1 ( 35 ) have delineated the HMG-box region alone to be sufficient for interaction and binding to DNA . |
| 6 | RG and RGGF sequences have been found in several proteins related with nucleolar localization and binding to RNA ( 4 , 5 ) . |
| 7 | The queen 's popularity soared still further when , on 9 April 1713 , she was able to announce to Parliament the final signature , two days before , of the Treaty of Utrecht , restoring peace to Europe and bringing to Great Britain such solid benefits as the destruction of the fortifications of Dunkirk and the retention of Gibraltar as a British possession . |
| 8 | Corcoran is winding down his business in Santa Monica and relocating to New York , while the team is completed with the appointment of Jennifer Vorbach , lured from Citibank 's Art Advisory Services , as gallery director . |
| 9 | Hew Leyshon , convertibles specialist at James Capel , believes a portfolio yielding a good 30 p.c. more than the market average can easily be constructed , keeping away from most speculative issues and sticking to stocks where the underlying business is undoubtedly strong . |
| 10 | It is the contention of the polytraumatic theory that exactly the same thing occurred when the next fundamental change in subsistence-pattern occurred , namely that from hunting and gathering to agriculture . |
| 11 | There is a wide range of sexually aggressive actions from men to women which form a continuum from sex murders through rape and sexual assault to sexual harassment and flashing to wolf whistling . |
| 12 | I 'm thinking about marketing my services on quality and relating to customers in a way that I 'd just begun to think of before but now it 's come right to the front . |
| 13 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) had on Aug. 28 approved a standby arrangement authorizing purchases up to the equivalent of SDR35,000,000 ( US$50,000,000 ) , the first since July 1982 , in support of the government 's economic and financial programme aimed at reducing inflation , strengthening the balance of payments and contributing to projects for economic growth . |
| 14 | Some of the conference 's decisions , he said , were " provoking a political crisis " and contributing to violence in the country . |
| 15 | How far can it be right for the judiciary , whom no one has elected , to assume the mantle of the legislature by inventing and applying to legislation , under the guise of construction , concepts of public policy which Parliament itself has deliberately refrained from expressing ? |
| 16 | I was saying to myself where 's it gone , where 's it gone , and praying to God , praying to God , and my thoughts went to the family for a few minutes . |
| 17 | Paul Sillitoe says they 'll be away for a month and walking to Everest base Camp … and he 's looking forward to it |
| 18 | Then there were the unwritten rules : girls travelling by train were not to travel in carriages with boys , and walking to school in the mornings , boys walked on one side of the road , girls on the other . |
| 19 | Tea with Madame Rochard sometimes , and walking to Miss Lucchesi 's and back , and those two hours that go by like water flowing through a sieve . |
| 20 | The last page needs completing and returning to Helena Moore . |
| 21 | Their homecoming , going to earth and returning to sources , reaches , in a sense , its furthest point in ‘ The Dry Salvages ’ , where Eliot returns to his own St Louis and Massachusetts childhood , to ‘ The life of significant soil ’ , and to the savage meanings associated with such beginnings . |
| 22 | Arguments within his congregation in Stenness , however , led to his demitting his post and returning to Edinburgh . |
| 23 | Mrs Jamieson will be travelling from Edinburgh to Leeds , departing from Edinburgh on Wednesday 8 September 1993 at 1.00 pm and returning to Edinburgh on Thursday 9 September 1993 , departing from Leeds at 6.49 pm . |
| 24 | These remained and the following sequence over a month all proved ineffective although she commented that she felt 20 years younger : Lachesis LM3 , stopping the remedy , Lachesis 200 , Syphilinum LM1 and returning to Lachesis LM3 . |
| 25 | While other holidaymakers end up changing their last few pesetas and returning to bills on the doormat , bronzed Antonia was laughing all the way to her agent Max Clifford . |
| 26 | The popularity of the Festival Land Cruise train in 1951 , which ran a circular route from Llandudno to Rhyl , where it reversed , then on to Denbigh , Corwen , Barmough , where a ninety minute break was taken , returning via Harlech , Afonwen , Caernarfon and Bangor to Llandudno , was such that the following year a second train was introduced , following the same route but starting from , and returning to Rhyl . |
| 27 | Walkers on the Three Peaks marathon usually start from Horton in Ribblesdale and do the journey anti-clockwise , visiting Penyghent , Whernside and Ingleborough in that order and returning to Horton from the last named by a route that approximates to a beeline . |
| 28 | So after a brief visit to Balmoral in the summer , Diana soon established a pattern of leaving Charles to it and returning to London and her friends . |
| 29 | From these diaries we know that Minton made between two and four visits to ‘ Marshalls ’ every year up until 1954 , staying usually a couple of nights and returning to London with sheaves of drawings . |
| 30 | By Thursday he was considering aborting the venture altogether and returning to Hobart . |